D'Angelo comes clean & wants to breathe like regular folk

"I needed to do more. I should've done more. But I didn't, and, fuck, that's on me."

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• Wire
• D'Angelo
• Barksdale
• Wallace
• Avon
• Stringer
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• Witness
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• Family

[endlessnice]

This is one of the best scenes in a show overflowing with great scenes. D'Angelo was one of the show's most interesting characters...wish we could have seen more of him.

[htownhomie06]

the speech from 7:26-7:55 is classic real talk.

"Y'all don't understand. U don't get it. U grow up in this shit ... All my people: my father, my uncles, my cousins. It's just what we do. U just live this shit until u can't breathe."

He coulda been describing a lot of shit in society.

If there's just 1 thing i love about The Wire, it always humanizes its characters instead of easily labeling each as either "good" or "bad."

Sad 2 imagine how many get caught up like this in real life?

[kandinskyforfootball]

@endlessnice Whose butch stanford @7:28? Is that the blind man?

[jamieas2]

season 1 of the wire.. NOTHING on tv can ever beat that

[finarrykahn13]

@00ghostcobra Yes. Totally agree. That view there at 2:09, in which even the public defender is visibly mortified by the brutality. I think it's safe to say that the Barksdale organization is pretty hard when you shake up a public defender with the scale of your ruthlessness....

[gunsnroses0000]

@tommybrown187 he didn't sign up for shit. he was born into it. damn i figured you'd at least get that much from this scene.

[00ghostcobra]

D'Angelo's lawyer looked like she was going to be sick the whole time...

[JMVEntertainment]

d'angelo had to get clipped but avon didnt knew stringer had something to do with his demise

[youngboysnation]

man D was my fav character i think nobody understood the person he was conflicted wit his enviornment. im a teen in a rap group and my ma introduced me to the wire this summer i finished the series its my fav damn show

[MrZugga]

@tommybrown187 but he doesn't snitch. in this scene at that time he's planning to but his mother talks him out of it later in Season 1, so he doesn't snitch and gets a longer sentence than even Avon gets. And then in Season 2 String has him killed because he's concerned that D will turn. there's nothing in Season 2 that suggests D is going to snitch.

[tommybrown187]

@MrZugga he snitched. point blank. there is no in between in the game. either u wit it or u aint wit it. and if u aint wit it then u against it. so he had to die. not to be harsh but thats what you sign up for

[MrZugga]

why should D have gotten killed? He never rolled, and in his last episode he talks about how there are no second acts in life, and that he'll always be a product of his past and his family, and he consigns himself to doing the time his own way. He wasn't going to turn